No E. coli on BJ's Mushrooms

There turned out to be no dangerous E. coli found on lots of mushrooms recalled last week by BJ's Mushrooms, a press release from the company says.
From the release:


BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. confirmed today that results from two outside laboratories reveal that all Wellsley Farms brand fresh mushrooms tested negative for E. coli. On February 20,
2007, BJ's voluntarily recalled its pre-packaged Wellsley Farms brand fresh mushrooms purchased between February 11 and February 19, 2007 due to a potential health risk


TK: Joe Caldwell of Monterey Mushrooms told me last week the industry might experience this type of "false positive" episode more in the future as retailers implement tests that may point to the presence of bacteria but not necessarily pathogens harmful to humans. We can hope BJ's learned something about their testing process as a result of the recall.